Pretreatment costs of care and time to initial treatment for patients with cancer of unknown primary.

摘要

Time to treatment and pretreatment costs may be affected by unknown primary tumor site. This retrospective study used electronic medical record data from patients in ten US community oncology practices. Eligible patients were ≥18?years, diagnosed with cancer of unknown primary (CUP) or known metastatic solid tumor, and presented between 1 January 2012 and 30?June 2014. Patients with CUP (n?=?294) had a longer interval than non-CUP patients (n?=?92) from presentation to treatment initiation (1.18 vs 0.49?months, p?